[MacDV] Re: Pioneer dvr-105 and IDVD

[Thubten Kunga]

To answer your questions: No and Yes. You forgot to tell us which G4 
tower — 1999-2002 single 5.25" optical or the late 2002 MDD dual 5.25" 
optical model?

Forget about using Pioneer DVD-RW drives outside your tower if you want 
to work with iDVD 3. Remove it from the case, which you can recycle 
with the optical drive you take out of an older tower or a large hard 
drive, and put it in as a MASTER drive while making the other MDD 
optical SLAVE (if appropriate). This will take you at most 5 minutes. 
Then buy iLife, install iDVD 3 and you will be good to go. Make sure 
you have installed the firmware patch for DVR-103 and DVR-104 drives to 
prevent burning them up if you use 4x rated media.

For those of you who haven't heard — Pioneer DVR-105 4x burners go on 
sale a lot at Staples and Office Max for $200 or less after rebates 
hidden in a Maroon and Gold lettered white box labeled Cendyne (brand) 
4x DVD-R/RW. You will see the model DVR-105 mentioned at the bottom of 
the spec list on the back of the box just above the bar codes. The 105 
(vs. A05) means it is missing the words "pioneer" on the faceplate.

You can also retrofit two 5.25" optical in any Mac Tower since 1999. I 
have a DVD-RAM drive and the 105 inside my old B&W with a PowerLogix G4 
Zif running @550 MHz processor upgrade and iDVD 3.

k

On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 09:20  AM, Brendan Perreault wrote:

> What if it was an internal drive put inside one of those Firewire case 
> kits?
>
> on 2/5/03 10:12 AM, Erica Sadun at erica at mindspring.com wrote:
>
>> At 9:08 AM -0600 2/5/03, Alan Lanning wrote:
>>> Apparently this burner is the same as Apple is putting into its new
>>> machines but is not recognized by iDVD when configured as an
>>> external drive.  Two questions:  does anyone know of a code patch to
>>> make iDVD work with the external burner and is it possible (easy) to
>>> remove the drive from the external case and mount it into my G4
>>> tower?  I have the EZQuest branded Poneer DVD.
>>> Thanks
>>
>> iDVD doesn't "do" external drives.
>>
>> -- Erica